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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3547)	1/4/2008 1:14:22 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

I agree with all 3 of your points. But accepting them doesn't make wanting to avoid high tax rates a greedy thing, unless you define greedy as having any sort of desire or any sort of desire involving wealth, not just as having an immoral, unjust, unacceptable, or otherwise negative desire. My objection is to the mindless mantra that insinuates there is no role for government and that we should all have the "freedom" to do whatever we want. Objecting to expansion of government, or even our currently level of government isn't supporting a mantra (mindless or otherwise) that there is no role for government. Some people do argue that we can be better off with no government. Some of those people and arguments are anything but mindless. I think their wrong, but wrong doesn't mean mindless, and of course I can't be 100% sure that I'm correct. In any case I do not agree with them, and I have not seen them presented here by anyone, so I don't see the relevance of your objection. I want a higher degree of freedom as both an end itself, as because I think it will help us achieve other ends, but that doesn't mean I'm an anarchist.